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Al Akkad was born on July 1, 1930, in Aleppo in the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon. [3] He received his high school degree from the Aleppo American College.His father, then a customs officer, gave him $200 and a copy of the Quran before he left for the United States to study film direction and production at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Halloween (advertised as John Carpenter's Halloween) is a 1978 American independent slasher film directed and scored by John Carpenter, who co-wrote it with its producer Debra Hill. It stars Donald Pleasence , Jamie Lee Curtis (in her film debut), P. J. Soles , and Nancy Loomis .
1990: Escape artist Joseph W. "Amazing Joe" Burrus died on Halloween when the glass 'coffin' he was attempting to escape from collapsed under the weight of wet cement poured on top of it. Burrus died on the 64th anniversary of the death of Harry Houdini, who was Burrus' inspiration for the performance.
John Carpenter's Halloween wasn't a smash hit when it was first released in 1978, but it slowly built an audience and would eventually become one of the highest-grossing independent films of all time.
"Halloween" (1978) is a classic horror film, but even superfans may not know these fun facts. Jamie Lee Curtis landed a leading role because of her mom, and 16 people have played Michael Myers.
And yet it is how I have made my entire career, which was born really from the 1978 Halloween movie,” Curtis told The Wall Street Journal in October 2021 while promoting the 12th Halloween flick ...
Irwin Yablans (born July 25, 1934) is an American independent film producer and distributor known for his work in the horror film industry. His brother, Frank Yablans , was also a producer. Life and career
Charles Cyphers, known for his role as Sheriff Leigh Brackett in the “Halloween” franchise, died from a brief illness in Tucson, Ariz., on Sunday, his manager Chris Roe announced. He was 85.